FP97: Web Publishing Wizard: No Prompt About WebBot Components (160781)

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard to publish a Web, the wizard does not notify you that the following WebBot Components will operate only if the Server Extensions are installed:

WebBot Confirmation component
WebBot Discussion component
WebBot Registration component
WebBot Save Results component
WebBot Search component
FrontPage Server-side Image Maps

NOTE: This behavior is different from FrontPage 1.1. The FrontPage 1.1 Web Publishing Wizard displays a list of pages that will not function correctly without FrontPage Server Extensions. The FrontPage 1.1 Web Publishing Wizard will not function with FrontPage 97. In FrontPage 97, the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard is a FrontPage 97 Bonus Pack component.

CAUSE

These WebBot components require that the FrontPage Server Extensions are installed on the server. The Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard is not designed to detect the presence of these components.

MORE INFORMATION

FrontPage generates client-side and server-side image maps by default. The client-side image maps do not need the FrontPage server extensions to function. NCSA, CERN, and Netscape image maps will continue to work if you use them on both source and destination Webs. If you are using one of these image map types, server-side image maps will function correctly.

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

143101 FP: Using FrontPage Without the Server Extensions

If the destination server has the FrontPage Server Extensions installed, all WebBot Components should function correctly even if they are posted using the Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard version 1.1.